Mini digger or compact loader

[Stephen Blair]

Very well done, but it's forum rules not to believe you unless there's pictures

 

 

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[irish surgeon]

Ha ok here goes, meant to say it was €5,800 not pounds, also resprayed in marine paint which he said would last a lifetime.

 

 

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[Old Mill Tree Care]

I'm no expert but the Avant is much faster over the ground and is designed to lift.

A digger is designed to dig.

 

Do you need a lifter or a digger and is ground speed important?

 

 

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[cornish wood burner]

I'm no expert but the Avant is much faster over the ground and is designed to lift.

A digger is designed to dig.

 

Do you need a lifter or a digger and is ground speed important?

 

 

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The Avant would be better at ploughing as well.

You can track across my lawn any time you wish to with your mini digger but I would only allow an Avant on it in the few dry summer months.

Not familiar with the bobcat mini but they have made a few skid steers so I would think they must make good gear. Transport via tractor and trailer presumably. I think you have made the right choice congrats. Hope you enjoy it.

[Dean Lofthouse]

I find the loader does less damage than tracks and you don't need to carry around big ply board sheets to turn on

My loader will do a 10 point turn on a lawn and hardly leave a mark but it has got flotation tyres on it (-:

 

 

 

 

 

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[Stephen Blair]

That's a great buy!!

Nice 1:)

 

 

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[irish surgeon]

Transport via 7.5ton Mitsubishi hook lift body so should be well over her job

 

 

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[LGP Eddie]

A few pics from some mowing today for those who still wonder about going up against one with the clearing saw!

 

Pictures don't do this justice, but the ground here is very soft (Operating the machine is like being on a bouncy castle), whoever originally created these ditches placed all the spoil in a nightmare sharp bund instead of level, and they don't want to grade them flat to enable them to be cut easily with a Tractor setup?

 

This is a classic case demonstrating why sometimes you need an Excavator (they have rolled a Tractor into here previously trying to cut them) and this has all been worked in one single pass, by completing the area in reach and moving on.

 

There's approx 4 hours work there?

 

 

I tidied up this bit of grass on the way out! Trust me if the machine wasn't really LGP you wouldn't get out alive for crossing this grass!

 

Eddie.

[kevinjohnsonmbe]

A few pics from some mowing today for those who still wonder about going up against one with the clearing saw!

 

 

 

Pictures don't do this justice, but the ground here is very soft (Operating the machine is like being on a bouncy castle), whoever originally created these ditches placed all the spoil in a nightmare sharp bund instead of level, and they don't want to grade them flat to enable them to be cut easily with a Tractor setup?

 

 

 

This is a classic case demonstrating why sometimes you need an Excavator (they have rolled a Tractor into here previously trying to cut them) and this has all been worked in one single pass, by completing the area in reach and moving on.

 

 

 

There's approx 4 hours work there?

 

 

 

 

 

I tidied up this bit of grass on the way out! Trust me if the machine wasn't really LGP you wouldn't get out alive for crossing this grass!

 

 

 

Eddie.

 

 

Ah but, Eddie!

 

The thread is MINI digger or compact loader! Unless there was some sort of photo-shop tomfoolery, I'd offer that what you're using in the pics has out grown the mini-digger label....?

 

No argument that a larger machine can handle the flow rate/pressure required of the flail / attachment, I'm not convinced a smaller machine has the kahoonas though!!

[shillo]

Driving on lawns is no prob with mini loader. With turf tyres on i can carry wood all day across lawns, a day or two later you would not tell a loader had been on the grass.

 

mini digger would be better on some jobs naturally. Avant is better for my, mainly domestic work.